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Hereditary Genius
Hawkins, F. Vaughan, continued—
g. Sir John Vaughan, Judge; Just. C.P. (See in JUDGES.)
gB. Rev. Edward Vaughan of Leicester; Calvinist theologian.
gB. Peter Vaughan, Dean of Chester; Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
gB. Sir Chas. Vaughan, Envoy Extraordinary to the United States.
gB. Sir Henry Vaughan, assumed the name of Halford, 1st Bart.; the well-known
physician of George III.
gN. The Rev. CHARLES J. VAUGHAN, D.D. joint senior classic of Cambridge, 1838;
eminent scholar; Head Master of Harrow; Master of the Temple; has refused
two bishoprics. The rigid rule I have prescribed to myself, of reckoning only
those who were sole senior classics, prevents my assigning a separate
paragraph to Dr. Vaughan.
Kennedy, Rev. Benjamin; senior classic, 1827; for many years Head Master of
Shrewsbury School; professor of Greek at Cambridge. Educated at
Shrewsbury, of which school he was head boy aet. 15; obtained the Porson
prize at Cambridge aet. 18, before entering the University, and the Pitt
University Scholarship aet. 19.
B. CHARLES RANN KENNEDY, barrister; senior classic, 1831.
B. Rev. GEORGE KENNEDY, senior classic, 1834; for many years one of the ablest of
the private tutors at Cambridge.
B. Rev. William Kennedy, Inspector of Schools; gained the Porson prize, 1835, but
was incapacitated for competition in the classical tripos through his not having
taken the previous, then essential, mathematical degree.
N. W. R. KENNEDY, son of the above; senior classic, 1868; was Newcastle scholar
at Eton.
N. J. Kennedy, has not yet (1869) arrived at the period for taking his degree. He
was Newcastle scholar at Eton, and Bell University scholar at Cambridge.
F. Benjamin Rann Kennedy. It is considered that he would have been an excellent
scholar if he had had advantages. Had considerable poetic talent (poem on
death of Princess Charlotte, quoted by Washington Irving in his “Sketch-
book”). Was Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham.
G. Her maiden name was Maddox, a lady of considerable intellectual and poetic
ability.
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